DENVER—Ward Churchill is heading to court in the hopes of getting back his professor’s job at the University of Colorado.

Churchill says CU fired him in 2007 because of an essay he wrote about the Sept. 11 attacks. His essay said the attacks were triggered by an unjust U-S foreign policy and likened those killed in the World Trade Center to “little Eichmans,” a reference to Nazi Adolf Eichman.

Churchill was a tenured professor of ethnic studies.

The university fired Churchill on plagiarism allegations after an investigation that began amid the furor over the Eichmann comment. A trial in his lawsuit is scheduled to begin Monday.

Three committees of faculty members from Colorado and other universities accused Churchill of plagiarism, fabrication and other research misconduct.

A member of a "sophisticated cocaine trafficking conspiracy" was convicted Monday in federal court in Denver of conspiring to distribute, and possessing with intent to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, according to prosecutors.

A man who shot two eighth graders at Deer Creek Middle School in 2010, and was found not guilty by reason of insanity to attempted murder, will not be allowed to leave the Colorado Mental Health Institute's grounds without supervision, according to a Jefferson County District Court ruling.

After the San Francisco Bay Area, metro Denver experienced the biggest apartment rent increases this decade in the country. But plenty of new supply should put future rent gains closer to the national average, according to a new report from RealPage, a real estate research firm.